Address Book

Introduction

Address Book demonstrates the use of GfxListCtrl control, CHyperlink class, CSystemTray class in one useful application. It also demonstrates dropdown tool button and well as using the template class CArray.

Even though a lot of programs at CodeProject come with samples, beginners find it difficult to learn how to actually use them in real application because the demos usually stick to just displaying the capabilities of that control. I decided to write a program which will not just demonstrate the functionality of the control but also how to make it work for you in your programs.

I will be focusing on the GfxListCtrl because my program is based around it. GfxListCtrl is written by Iuri Apollonio. CHyperLink and CSystemTray are written by Chris Maunder.

How do I use the Text callback function ?

Well, first of all I create a class called CPerson. This class holds all the details about the person and the Serialize function is overloaded to save and load the details.

An array is created to hold the CPerson objects as in CAddressDoc as

CArray<CPerson,CPerson&> m_PersonArray;

This makes it easy to use the TextCallBack function. Your TextCallBack function for the GfxListCtrl is declared as

where lCode gives which item in the array is required. iIndex and iSubItem gives you the row and column respectively on the screen. To get the actual column you will have to use GetColumnIndex() member function of the GfxListControl, which means in your view class you would write something like this

To use double click features in your program derive a class from GfxListCtrl. In my program that class is CAddressCtrl.

You have to override the OnLButtonDblClk(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) member function. Pass the point to CGfxListCtrl::HitTestEx(CPoint & point, int * col) member function and it will return to you the physical row and column on the screen at which the double click occurred. You can use the GetItemTextEx(index,column,cs) function where cs is a CString object to get the text of that Item. If you need to know the actual column on which the double click occurred like I do then you will have to use

column = pManager->FindColumnById(GetColumnIndex(column));

Based on this you can take the required action. In my program if you double click on the phone number it dials that number or double clicking on the URL will take you there. Here is the code

I modified Chris Maunder's class (CHyperLink) and made the GotoURL and GetRegKey member functions as static so that they can be called directly without the need to create an instance of the class. tapiRequestMakeCall is the TAPI function to make a call. If you want to use it in your project just include <tapi.h> and TAPI32.LIB into your project.

Serializations of the Template class CArray

To load and save my address array I serialized the CArray derived class as follows

Thank you for help, but my main problem that I want to send or get data between two applications, therefore I want build common application from two work application as:
1. my project that read to the address book after buttom pusshing
2. address book application that should allow to get or send data to my project.

How I can to compile two project together (build one common code) and add any dependences or function, that allow to do this operation.